Wait a few weeks for the letter of authorization from various Ethiopian ministries, I begin my journey on the road to the plains of the south.
I want to examine controversial government plan that takes most of the ancestral land, home to about 100,000 local farmers, and make it an important center for commercial agriculture, where foreign companies and government agricultural plantations are cash crops like Palm sugar and rising oil.
After the ride (800 km 497 miles) over two days by lush high plateaus of Ethiopia I begin my descent into the lower Omo Valley. Here, where paleontologists have discovered some of the oldest human remains in the earth, clinging some old ways of life.
Some tourists may seek an overview of African discovery that lives in their imagination. But the government's plan to "modernize" the beach called "reverse" is made inaccessible to journalists.
Since my jeep jump down into the valley, I see how people decorated in white body color and dressed made on the dusty track in the complex jewelry made of feathers and cow horn herd their cattle.
I'm late afternoon in a village I will not name, speaks in the hope that some Mursi people - a group of about 7000 relating famous huge lips ornamental tone.
Meanwhile, a massive new dam upstream of the Omo River and reduce ended his season high water - and food crops they grow on its shores.
This is probably one of the most sensitive stories in Ethiopia and the government seeks to remove.
The human rights groups have repeatedly criticized the rules according to which people are mistreated and forced into line.
I had ups spoken local officials in the provincial capital of Jinka, before traveling to the remote savannah.
The suspicion is palpable, as the leader of South Omo Zone teaches me. The local population and the reputation of the region were severely damaged by the negative reports of foreigners, he said.
Finally, an open discussion will take place and I assure you verbal permission for the changes that must be reported in the valley.
The Mursi people
About 10,000 live in Ethiopia Mursi
Traditionally known as a ceramic plate as the debhinya in the lower lip of young women
They live in an area by the rivers Mara, Omo and Mago, which flow into Lake Turkana surrounded Mursi area was under the reign of King Menelik II in the 19th century in Ethiopia
The people pushed out of Ethiopia's fertile farmland
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